“The industry told me in 2008 that I was Oregon’s first Black winemaker,” he says. “I didn’t care; I wasn’t doing it for the industry. I didn’t do it for anyone.” … “We hear the term ‘token’ all of our lives,” he says, “but I finally decided that someone needs to see. And that’s the thing: I won’t be their token ever. I’ll be my token every day because I get to choose the value of that.”

“What I took away from that is showing up as you are every day,” he says, even when it doesn’t feel good. “Because we don’t get to choose who we influence; we get to choose how.” You know how you walk in the door he says “It’s up to me how you leave” – Bertony Faustin

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